I have a poorly taken photo to share

I have been deliberating for a long long time on whether to upload this photo or not. Normally, I'd have condemned my handshake photos right away, but I couldn't bring myself to delete this one.

I was just standing on the street, taking photos and reviewing them immediately as I always do, when this little girl with a skipping rope walked by. I didn't notice her initially, as I was rather focused on my camera's LCD.

In order to review my photos, I'd always tilt my camera's LCD upwards towards myself and peer closely at its details. From her point of view, she probably saw this very tall stranger, pointing his camera at her as walked by.

And that was when she suddenly paused in front of me, with a toothy grin on her face, her skipping ropes close to her chest in what she probably felt was an appropriate pose for her 'big fan' to photograph. Indeed it was. It took me a fraction of a second to realise that she was waiting for me to take her picture - it would have taken longer were she not holding that bright skipping rope in her hands. After all, my camera was obstructing my view of her.

I snapped out of my photo-reivewing mode and into my photography mode quickly (I had to switch my own mode before doing so for my camera), aimed my camera at her and snapped. Unfortunately for me, it was getting dark, due to both the overcast sky and the approaching dusk. I could tell my photo wasn't very well taken, yet I was too shy to let the little girl wait for me to shoot again, thus I waved her a thanks and a goodbye. She returned my wave with her own and another smile, and went on her way.

It was her cheerful disposition and spotaneous friendliness towards a complete stranger (with a camera?) that left a very deep impression on me.